The Sun. — London, England, 1809-03-24 00:00:00

. , thoie of a loiter older. Ike thetight it necestarY for him, after the part he had taken; . to, state the grounds upon which he Voted on this occasion. Ha hail been the more inclined to agree to the posrpone ment, because the Hon'. Bart. opposite had said it would afford an Opporienity for some Gentlemen who could, he thought, Successfully . adVocate the Cause of General Clavering, to be present. Their reasonings, he Must Conlesk, he would have beets el,id to hear, as With all the examinatitin he ha d been able to give to the 'subjett, his mind had not sug • gested to him any grounds foradefence. He con *ldered General. Clavering guilty of having, prevari cated. 'On the first day of his eiamination he did not give true answers to the questions as they were understood by others ; and for the House to decide whether this was done from misapprehension, or with- a design to deceive them, they . must look at the 'whole of his condu&.. They would then see that he .came misrepresenting the falls which led bit» to the 'Bar, and contradicting his first statement.. Ott his second examination. Which of the two statements was true he did not inquire, it was .clear dough that General Clavering bad not dealt fairly 'with the House. He was faliified in 'what he said, that " he had no communications with Mrs. Clarke on the subjea of military promottstos." To .do 4,4ray,the impression that he had such communica - 110 011, he had gone to the Duke of York and to Col. Gordon, while at the same time he was conscious it 1 14 true, and that he bad himself offered 10001 i for !Ile-very purpose of military promotion. Under- all niesookaum,calic e s he must vote for the motion. Mr. WHITBREAD explained, that in his quotation he only put it what people might say if qen. Cia" vering was not punished as well as Capt. SAden. Lord J. CANiTRELL stated, that if the delay had Argyle) nacctded "; his Noble Relation (the Duke of would 'lave been ready 10 come to the Bar, to state what G en . Cl aver i ng h a d .t o ld hint of the impressing twile on his mind by the questions on which it Wai HOW thought be prevaricated, which nuld thew, lie had no design ofdcceiving the House, 4111 that his answers proceeded from tnisapprelten hion of their meaning. Ali, W11)111'1'014 drew a distin6lion between preva kication and contradiction, and contended, that Gen. layering had not been guilty of the former,' as all iris answers were . direct: If he had contradielell Merely, there was no precedent on the journals of 'committal for that offence, and the present motion could not be agreed to. He then alluded to the tank of the party, and contended, that if it ought not to screen from punishment, so !wither ought it to aggravate Offence,. but in the question Gen. Cla itering lunsi Gen: Clavering ought to be out of the Ease, and it should be considered merely es aired ing A. B. He maintained that Gen. Clavering might have misunderstood the questioes, and that it be had any intention of deceiving, he would not have come forward the second time to authenticate the letters, *Melt were the only things that convicted him. Mr. WNsuGIITAN explained. Mr. &Luau contended, that the questions were put ill so plain a matmer, that it was impossible to misunderstand them. He had heard so much of this distinction about prevaricating, contradicting, and Shuffling, that it, quite puzzled him ; but trying to . Make the offence out to be contradiction, instead of Prevarication, veered to him somethinglt. a a--per-' Vo e h l t , had heard of, who being indicted under the 77Tv..t a ry Act for an attempt to deface a mat), plead-; eo li th tic had no intent to deface, pe on. but to Murder the He thoUght theevidence of Gen. Clavering a more dire c t contradic t ion than Sauden 's,. and, as wilful, Wmen in and foolish ' p revar i c ation. It en in Gen. Clavering's ran k prevaricated, the i r charae-% education, and connection, &c. magnitied.their offence, and ren d ered them, if possible, mere liable to rn i s h men , man persons of loss i n tO r med'minds. wstists replied to the o b serv a t i ons o f Mr. Wharton, and re it' the Standing Ord er o f the House tO punish those who were guilty of falsehood, in na i wei to th e argument, t h a t if Gen. Clawing was ?n'Y guilty of contradiction, he was not liable to be plMish • ed. He then summed uo the other mottCr; and thought „pon the whole th ere was not eve n th e ' possibility of a doubt in his favour whic h if there 'was, hit cha racter, ; racter, &c. would be of advantage to him, as turning the male of probability in his fa vonr. The Gallery bring cleared, the Motion Vat agreed to witho u t a division, and Gen. Clavering was . or dered to be forthwith taken into 11 custod y t the Serjeant at Arms. . The Hoeft theh adjourned at Nine o'clock. PROM niE GERMAN PAPERS. PARIS, F 1313, 21. The Administrations of the Army of the Rhine are n0 , ..5 , organizing. The head-quard fens of the bake of AUERST &DT will, it is Said, soon break up 'frotn - Erfert,. and take the - toad'to Bani terg, Nuremberg, &c. The divisinni of. Marand and Gudin, which lately formed the 'third corps, are on the point oi leavingT. their cantonments, if they have not done it already. The troops in the, t erritory 'Of Bayielith, under — the cotrimancl of Ge . 4e rAN Frustyr and DESPAGNE, , have begun their In arch, as haVe also the troopi in'.Hanover.. i l The Works Of 04 harbour Napoleon, at Cher bourg, are now carrying sour: " ---..- - on with the utmost vi. t jl2 4N,Auclitor of the Counsellor. of State, is 1 llPPeinteri-chif . o f the Marine Administration at t'Oriedt. - ' Yesterday there was a grand .parade in the Thug kries. The treol)i of the guard and the 'new levies, amounted to ahout 10,000 men,. The review con.. !limed nearly four hours, during all which time, the mrl'''mPer°r continued on f00t... When the troops filed L: 7 4 a young man sprang through the interval made uPtwein two platoons, in order 16 throw: himself at t, the feet of the Emperor, and present a petition.— P rhe guards and police officers, however, prevented his Paiiing any,further, when the , Emperor, who Perceivvd the obSe6l of this. inconsiderate at, which Ibuild its excuse in the paternal goodness of the Ern , i I. . sent rective the . 13 - which his Majesty immediately read. Troops arB continually marching'to Italy and the Rhine. - It i said Martha' 114AssEi will have-the coMMatid Forty thousand . Men have gene from this city to join the corps of General OUDINOT. M. BIANCHI D'AnDA, the French Engine"er, at tached to the French Embassy in Persia, has arrived herd from Teheran. According to the accounts brought by this Officer, the new taaics Make'a great progress in Persia, At his departure there were 6000 men of the army of the prince ABBAS Multi, Completely exercised in the Eurippean manner. The: FrenCh Officers .LAMI . and VIBDIBR, Who are at- tached to the French Embassy, exercise the Pershui troops, and have both received the Order of the Sun. On the intelligence of the arrangement between the Porte. and England, the price of cotton rose here considerobly. It is not doubted but the Russians will soon pass the Danube. ' If letters:from Wallachia may be credited, the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, informed of the conti nued stay of the English Alinilter, Mr. ADAIR, at the Dardanelles, has broken off all negotiation with the Ottoman Porte. Pritice PROSORO\VSK.Y had re ceived orders to advance, and it was expeaed that hostilities would soon be renewed. M Ai LS. ARRIVILD'-2 Dublin, t Waterford. Du a —2, Cottenburgh, Lisbon, I Waterton!. PRICE OF STOCKS TOTS DAY AT 'MALTZ O'CLOCK. Consols • . • • • - - 67 THE SUN. 40111,11 puts DICCRIt ALSUU *Ulna? LONDON, PRIDAY, MARCH 9.4, 1809. his stated in a Paper of this morning, that Sir Joux DUCKWORTH had arrived off Cadiz with 14 Sail of the Line. in pursuit of the French Fleet, and that it Was supposed he would, upon ascertaining that they had not passed the Straits, shape his course to the West Indies.—We are enable to state po sitively that the above statement is unfounded. It has been reported that the Fervent Gun-brig had brought an account from Basque Roads, that Lord GAMBLER was standing in, with the whole of the British Fleet, for:the purpose of attempting to destroy_ the French Squadron. This report is also unfounded; the • Fervent bred& no such intelli gence. Government, we believe, are in daily expeaation of receiving intelligence' or the surrender of Fort Bourbon. The last accounts from Martinique are of the 19th February ; zt,;hat time Fort Bourbon was closely blockaded, and it was daily expetled to sur render. We have just seen a private Letter from Heligo. land, dated the t9th inst. of which the following is an extract :—" A Vessel (or Vessels) belonging to this place, which had been taketi by a Danish Pri-: valeer, had been retaken by some Dutch pun.tadts,: and deliverd' up upon paying a trifling sum, so anxious are the Dutch to trade - with us."' We have this ,day, made some further Extraa4 from the Dutch and German Papers, and although they do not contain any authentic intelligence of the Peclaratiom of War bet Ween Austria and France, yet we have little*doubt - thathcistilities have saually commenced. Indeed it was positively stated by a Gentleman who arrived in town. from the Continent on Tuesday last, quit the Declaration of. War against Austria, %as published at Paris on the 17th inst. A Debak.e took plaix last night . in the troasii - of Corn =lli, reapeeting General CLAVEIIINO, * lllO terminated by his being hrderecl into the custody of the Serjeant at Arms, •. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, and Princess AUGUSTA, accompanied by Earls OnasTadtrtoi and WINCHRLSRA, the Hon. G. VllAreas, Generaii DC BUDR, FITZROY, and MANISIRRii, and Lady num CumnatiLAtsn, rode on horseback in Windsur Park, till one O'clock. We nre happy to announce that Princesses So. PIIIA and AtstaLtAsare a little better, but'nbt able to go out. Sir DAVID DuNrms has appointed Colonel Gattr box to be his Publie Military .Secretary. The French Ruler seems to ad as if he were ani.' sinus to excite the detestation of mankind ) by - giv-' ing way to such an outrageous stretch of ambition'. Not satisfied with having overturned .so many an cient Governments, in order to provide: for his up start family and his minions, lie has now thought proper to bestow the Government of Tuscan) on one of his Sisters. It is impossible that this man can suppose that any of these IVlushrnom Potentates hold w their power a moment atter the world has 4eeis rvheved from Itis tyranny, and therefore such elevations are the mete effect of a tutilper grown wanton with success, and digposed to treat mankind with the utmost contempt. ' . • f I NAVAL NEWS. Pi.Ystotirfr, lkiAitc4 British Brig . Hayli, of Bristol, from Pernatnlinco, laden 'With cotton, indigo, and Madeira Wine-bound to Bristot; sailed the 19th Jinuary, slid oa itio 14th inst. was Captured by a French Privateer, and on the. 14th following, in.lat. 45. long. 11. was re-Captured • by.his Majesty's Ship Diana, Capt. Ga.Al44. .Sailed the Alexandria Frigate to the Westward. Went up.the harbour to refit his Majesty's Ship Seatiia. Arrived the John and Thomas, Goanok, from Waterfordjaden with provisions for this Port; and the Portuguese BrigArnezade, CHUM EA, from Oporto, laden i& ith wine and fruit, bound to . London. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH to —Sailed Lu Plane, on a cruize. Arrived.the frilliarn and Mary, -, from Lon don ; the Nile, -, from the Brazils; and tht Brothers, -, from Bristol. • SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH Passed by the Oporto Fleet. M4PCCIi his Majesty's Ship Viaorious - front Portsmouth ; and the' Earl Spencer Cutter, with convoy, from Dublin, which arc sailed for the River. Sailed the Devonshire, Surrey, and the Castle Eden Indiamen, far India. Arrived the Rio .Nova, MARTIN, front Grenada ; 414 Favourite, EVANS, from St. Kitt's. LIVERPOOL; MARCH 22.—Arrived the Mary, MEARNS, from Demerara. She sailed on 7th of February ; on the 12th, oti . Martinique, she was boarded by the Dispatch Sloop of War, who inform ed her that Fort Bourbon was very shortly expetied to surrender, as the British were on' the heights bombarding it. The Packet sailed from St. Tho mas's on the 13th of February. • EXTRACT OF A LETTRE FROM ON BOARD TUB PLO• VAR, 011 P MIRANDA AND PORTO : VEDRARIVER,. • MARC!! 7 " We arrived here with the Plover and Statira this morning, and lay-M, pff and on, all day,wait ing for ao answer from the Generat, the Marquis RUSIANA. At night we made for Vigo, anti came to anchor off thie Onza lilandsOn. the 3oW. On the 2d March, sailed in chas of a bu g going into Vigo. On the 4th, hearing, „that the French had posession of Miranda and Porto,Vidro„ at the request of the Spaniards : , th© .and Statira, supplied them with all the arms and =- Munition they' could possihly , and .y.4terday. at Igo* o'cicia - ; every Fritichnkau -quitied tile towns of Miranda, Porto Novo;ma Porto Vidro. . ‘‘ On the 4th the French got completely defeated, with the loss of 400 men killed on the spot, and a vast number wounded." On Sunday last was interred, in the burial ground of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the remains. of FWGH HEWSOW, who died at the advanced age of 85.—The tl;,ceased was a man of no Mean celebrity, though no rtti:zrzl escutcheons adorned' his hearse, or heir expeaant gaiced b.is" 'obsequies. He•was no less a personage than the identical Hugh Strap, whom Dr. SMOLLETT has rendered •so conspieu 'ously interesting. in his, Life and Adventures' of Roderick Random, and for upwards of forty years had kept a hair-dresser's shop in the above parish. The deceased was a very,intelligent .man, and took delight in recounting the adventures .of his early life. He spoke with pleasure of the time he passed in the service of.. the 'Do4tor, and. it was his pride, as well as' boast, to say that he had been eilueated at the same seminary .witlr,so learn ed and distinguished a charatler. His shop was hung round with Latin quotations, and he. would a f r n e c q v ci s e trite ral t point to his customers and acquaint., scenes in Roderick Random, pertaining i to himself, which, had their,,founda don, not in the Deaor's inventive lancy,.,but in 'truth and reality. The meeting in a barber'i shop at Newcastle-upon:Fyne, the sub Sequent mistake, "at the inn, their arriVal tngether'ih Lon don, and the assistance they. experienced from S T rtAp.'s friend, were all of that description: .We ucidersiaoil the deceased 11801;0 behind Ihim. an in ta*leal copy of Roderick Random, pointing eat. tis 004 liliewina. how fiir they .were. ikOttott•A to the ginius,ut the Doctor, mid to what Octant they were brobroed in reality. 'rho deceased could never sue eeed,ip gaining ,rnoro than , a respeatabl r e subsistence bS his trade, but he possessed an independence of niittd , .Superior tp his, humble tondiiion. Of late yeariiiiiew,a's employed as Keeper,of the Promenade j ;k Villiers Walk, Adelphi, and was welt noticed and . respefted by. the inhabitants' , who frequented twit place. . . • • - . . The,Druty-laneCompany concluded theieper- C:rmahres last nighr, at the Kiog's Theatre, '.with 77 t i COingq Pir,l,. in which, the Miss'. Peggy of; Mrs. -loaf/AO was, of course, A powerful attraction ! We are r tnesh gratified in itatifig that there uhs:a very crowded audience, hut as so an of the inferior performers are reduced to great distress, .we hope the licence *int* renewed, and that the public will warmly patronize the futureetertions. ul the Cern pany• , Milis.HowitA,Ni as well as,her father, isnowTer forMing at Edinburgh. She was to make her first appearance on 'AlonoaplaSt 'in i3e/1.44,era, .to Mr, Ifet,sfAN'S JalfiCr. • I. canx-tscurition, MAROR k4: ,- -Wheat this day' i 4 in:rnititiling 94Ipply, and sales in general rather de cline in price; ordinary Barley is cheaper; Malt lik ev vige ; White and Grey. Pease are each dearer; Tick Deans to plenty, and lower ; Otero are - tolera ble supplies ot Otts, elneity front Elte..'Nwt,b Coitn try;, bit causes tins, Altaic to be, named rgther,d,v4llg 1- . -Flour does not soncgt List quoted-prices. FREIVCR* .4.YP _ntrtvii PiiA .. lint:C/14'Di; thaide (Of ' SerVian agents, ordered to repair to the con g r c ii o Vass tr:is made without the least disturbance. - Our illcts~ trious General - _ end the. Mitiistft'r Russia have Made all 'arrangetnents;' that' the 'choke of thiSentge-should fall upon' Melt diStintoiihe'd tj $ their wisdom and firmneis. The arst article of tivtir inStrudions preseribes_to them formally, thittAlltt shall enter into mi,disctission, unless the frideTead. ence of Servia is recognised oh the spot by the Turk. tsh . agenti. tr-thei,r departure froth berice,..the Deputies were accompanied one lettgue Irom..this town by a crowd,Of persons of all ranks and ageis, : " who uttered the mOst ardent, vows rot the success of their mission. • -• . . Some days.after the departure of those envoys, the news of the signature of the peace between, En - land and Turkey was brought to Belgrade by an ei- 7 traordinary .courier; whOut.the,4lgent of our Senate sent from Constantinople. , This, courier came aw•ay in disguise, and arrived .without the least escort.—i. According to the :intelligence he has brought, t.he debates on this Occasion were very warm in the Coon- Cils of . the Grand Signior. Some Ministers made vehement declarations again4' the peace, and 'consi dered it,as the source-of the greztest misfottunec to the .Ottoman Empire ; but the .majority, deceiVed by the lies of the 'English agent, or.corrupted by-liii guineas, stilled the voices of the wise. . it is added, that what principally determined O. Porte to sign the peace is the hyiltiapt.pldiare.whicli the English drew of the situatioitrof atiliirS in Spain; and of the great success of the Anglo• Spaniards. They took advantage of the- ignorance of. the ,Ott man /Viinisterso so far as, to persuade them that , . the English and Spanish . allied Fleets would unite io attack the Turkish possessions, and that the two na tions I,venld take signaniengeanee on the'friends of France. These lies, .corroborated by the authority of the Anglian Internuncios, prOduced.the eti -- ect in tended by the l3ritish Minister. The Pachas of Scutari, Janina, and Bosnisi . . it is said, seconded with their power the intrigues of the English. VIENNA FEB. 23. 7 —Count Louis de Cohenzel died here on the morning of the i).2d, after a linger« ing illness. • .• BiiRUN, Fan. bo.—The list letters from Silesia announce, that within ,a few weeks there,have atrs rived upon the western frontier of that province; a' crowd of peasants, inhabitants of towns, and other persons, who are quitting Bohemia in great Lite, where the most rigorous measures are taken, in or.; , der to oblige them either to serVe among the troop of the line, or to make a part of the landivehr (fen.' cbles). The number of these fugitives has increased' so much, that the principal passek between the two countries have been occupied by troops. Big the. Bohemians; being well acquainted with the passes in; the mountains, easily escape this guard. We alsO see arrive it Silesia a great number of Austrian de serters, who;.do 'mit wish to tight any more against the French. Sonic go into the service of the tins bondman and manutaaurers a Silesia; and otbert continue their route towardi Poland. .. • GERMANY. . • ' On the Ist of March, at Vienna, the appearance of things_ Wai warlike. Not. a 'day. passel dur,iig Which regiments of cavalry and ;afantriqld 'fliaf the caphin, ml several regiments were further ex , peaett from fit igary. - , . The six first battalions a of the Vienna Feneihle4 were mustered publicly on the ad inst. frOui which day .they as well; as the tegular troops ,were to-re ceive full pay. In the following week they were t 6 be presented to his Majesty. and then proceed on , theit march to Upper Austria. • 1 . On the i 7th of 'February the Archduk e J o h n pro ceeded to 'fialtzburgh and the. interior of Austfia,. and the Count, De Bellegarde to Krakau. On the same day a Russian Major arrived at Vienna, walk . dispatches of the greatestimportance. It is asserted: that his Majesty, accompanied by the,Archduke.Palatine, was to go to Hungary on th . d 10th of March, in order to survey the troops there. At Muuieh, ,the greatest industry was, employ,:d in the arsenals, and the greater part of. the garrisori were already gone into the Tyrol. 'On the Uth 'of March, the whole division of Gen. Wrede, t 2,000 tnen strong, was to break up from Uitn, Aug•burgi Liadau, &c. towards the Inn. At Dresden, measures had been taken to protea the town from attack,' which were become the more necessary, as a great quantity of Austrian cap yalry was cantoned near the Saxon frontier, and.the Archduke Charles was arrived at Prague. The gai. , riaon 'ot this city has already' marched, and it is a;iid that a powerful Austrian army is already coile&ed at Egra. According to intelligence from the Maine, ,of the ad of March, Russia is labouring to compost lti fference* between the two Powers. Letters from the South of Franc% received at Frankfort the 7th of March, state, that the cost;-' munication with Spain.by way of Perpignan, through Catalonia, is not altogether free. The French h ove strong garrisons in Itosas and Figneras; but in the neighbourhood of Gerona; and beyond, 'there ire still numerous bands of insurgents, -who indeed ay& dispersed as soon as regular troops approach, but o soon as titese retire, they appear again and render the plains insecure. At' Perpignan, do arniy of helve has been farmed, probably ,destined to besiege Gerona, while St. Cyr has advanced towards gon, in order to unite with the Emrich Maraitais4 In Barceloria also a strong garrison is lett behind.— (Delf.Ctuirent, March-1W) . 'MANIA. - • According to intelligence iroin Saragossa, the. Lie of Palat4 is despaired q - The people Ithici Iwn IFS inch abhorrence, that It has beenibund necessary to have: a guard befbre - his g el4g oor to prevent his • .- b stoned. Io every square, gibbets were raised -to hing those tubas' ,spoke- of .stirrendering, 'Thos Commistion who carried these sentences into execution, consisted of six Monks. 7'wo of 1144 e 'Counsellors of 'Prsitifox, Bosuns i'ond -- :eisjave, have been pullicly shot: . The in.ht4itonts of &fr 0g0 ,,,,t manifested the kreatest-plepsure to see themselves de• livered from ttoo4vretches to whom they ascribed rill their sufferings. There have been found hi Sara gOssa mote thin lov,opo• muskets of English Ina• nulailtue, and 200 pieces of cannon. Fifteen thou• sand prisoners Of wa: - hae been sent under the escort